Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Steve Jobs today passed away October 5, 2011. A tribute to Steve Jobs, google doodle comes with the name Steve Jobs, with links to http://www.apple.com/
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American inventor and businessman. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of the Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. In the late 1970s, Jobs—along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula and others—designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Macintosh. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he served as its interim CEO from 1997, then becoming permanent CEO from 2000 onwards. After resigning as CEO in August 2011, Jobs was elected chairman of Apple's board of directors and held that title until his death. In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd, which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer. He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1 percent until its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company in 2006. Consequently Jobs became Disney's largest individual shareholder at 7 percent and a member of Disney's Board of Directors.
On October 5, 2011, Jobs died in California at age 56, seven years after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Apple founder, Steve Jobs, built his company from small to global as now. Many lessons can be learned from the twists of life Steve Jobs. Here are the facts the late Steve Jobs:

1. Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, 24 February 1955 was a descendant of Syria. His father, a professor of political science at the University of Syria, Abdulfattah Jandali, married female students, Joanne Simpson. Maddox was adopted as a baby by Paul and Clara Jobs.

2. Steve Jobs, including the naughty child. He claimed to be "artisans of terror". In elementary school, he never let go of the snake and blow up firecrackers in class.

3. Steve Jobs dropped out of Reed College in Portland after college one semester. Jobs continue to attend classes considered attractive for 18 months after discharge, including calligraphy lessons.

4. Steve Jobs once a hippie after being expelled from the campus.

5. Steve Jobs joined Atari in 1974 to support his spiritual activities. He traveled to India in 1974 and studied Zen Buddhism. He once shaved off her hair.

6. Steve Jobs pescetarian. He ate fish, milk and eggs, but do not eat meat.

8. Steve Jobs never fired the commissioner, which he founded his own company in 1985. Once fired, Jobs founded the new company, NeXT, which focus on computer and business courses. He created a modern operating system that Apple bought the operating system, and request Jobs returned. Jobs returned to Apple in 1996

9. Steve Jobs is the most influential businessmen according to Fortune magazine, 2007. He was among the 136 richest person according to Forbes magazine in 2010 with a fortune of U.S. $ 5.5 billion.

10. Steve Jobs is identical to the black clothing long sleeve mock-turtleneck that made St. Croix, Levi's 501 jeans, and sneakers New Balance 992 size 14. He has a pair of Levi's more than 100. Jobs first bought a suit at the age of 22.

11. Steve Jobs is idolized singer Bob Dylan and the Beatles. Jobs also has a hobby of photography.

12. Annual salary as CEO of Apple Steve Jobs just U.S. $ 1. Jobs received the money but the use of private planes and has 5.5 million shares of Apple Inc. Jobs also owns shares in Disney pengasilan forecast to reach U.S. $ 48 million.

13. Steve Jobs once said to Pepsi CEO John Sculley, "Are you going to spend the rest of your life by selling sweetened water to a child or change the world?" John Sculley became CEO of Apple from 1983 to 1993.

14. In 2008, writing an obituary of Steve Jobs publicly available on the Internet.